The Royal Borough of Kingston upon Thames is a borough in southwest London. The main town is Kingston upon Thames and it includes Chessington,Malden Rushett,New Malden,Surbiton and Tolworth. It is the oldest of the four royal boroughs in England. The others are Windsor and Maidenhead,the site of Windsor Castle,and the London boroughs of Greenwich,and Kensington and Chelsea. The local authority is Kingston upon Thames London Borough Council.
Shirley Vivian Teresa Brittain Williams,Baroness Williams of Crosby,was a British politician and academic. Originally a Labour Party Member of Parliament (MP),she served in the Labour cabinet from 1974 to 1979. She was one of the "Gang of Four" rebels who founded the Social Democratic Party (SDP) in 1981 and,at the time of her retirement from politics,was a Liberal Democrat.
Linda Perham is a Labour politician in the United Kingdom.
Claire Margaret Ward is a British Labour Party politician who was elected Mayor of the East Midlands in May 2024. Previously,she served as Member of Parliament for Watford from 1997 to 2010. Ward was a Government Whip from 2005 to 2009 and a Justice Minister from 2009 to 2010.
Dame Angela Eileen Watkinson,DBE is a British politician. She was Conservative Party Member of Parliament (MP) for Hornchurch and Upminster until 2017,and was first elected in 2001 to the earlier seat of Upminster,defeating Labour's Keith Darvill who had taken the seat from the Conservatives in 1997. She was re-elected with increased majorities in 2005 and 2010.
Martin John Salter is a British Labour Party politician who was the Member of Parliament for Reading West from 1997 to 2010.
Dame Margaret Olivia Hillier,known as Meg Hillier,is a British Labour and Co-operative politician who has been the Member of Parliament (MP) for Hackney South and Shoreditch since 2005. Hillier was a junior government minister from 2007 until 2010 and was succeeded by Caroline Flint as Shadow Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change in the Labour Party October 2011 reshuffle. She has been the chair of the Treasury Select Committee since 2024,having previously chaired the Public Accounts Committee from 2015 to 2024.
Valerie Shawcross is a British politician who served as Deputy Mayor of London for Transport from 2016 to 2018. A member of the Labour Co-operative parties,she was Member of the London Assembly for Lambeth and Southwark from 2000 to 2016.
Helene Valerie Hayman,Baroness Hayman,is a British politician who was Lord Speaker of the House of Lords in the Parliament of the United Kingdom. As a member of the Labour Party she was a Member of Parliament from 1974 to 1979. When she became an MP at age 25,she was the youngest MP of the 1974–79 Parliament. Hayman became a life peer in 1996.
Vincent Leo Martin Hanna was a Northern Irish television journalist known for his coverage of United Kingdom by-elections.
Elizabeth Leah Manning DBE was a British educationalist,social reformer,and Labour Member of Parliament (MP) in the 1930s and 1940s. She organised the evacuation of orphaned or at risk Basque children during the Spanish Civil War.
Mitcham and Morden is a constituency in Greater London represented in the House of Commons of the UK Parliament since 1997 by Dame Siobhain McDonagh of the Labour Party.
Pauline Perry,Baroness Perry of Southwark is an educator,educationist,academic,and activist. She is a Conservative politician and was for 25 years a working member of the British House of Lords. In 1981 she became Her Majesty's Chief Inspector of Schools in England. In 1986 she became Vice-Chancellor of South Bank Polytechnic,and serving during its transition to a university,became the first woman in history to run a British university.
Dame Patricia Anne Hodgson is a British broadcasting executive,competition regulator,and academic administrator.
The Mitcham and Morden by-election was held on 3 June 1982. It was a rare example of a governing party gaining a seat in a by-election.
Nicola Ann Morgan,Baroness Morgan of Cotes,is a British politician who served as Secretary of State for Education and Minister for Women and Equalities from 2014 to 2016 and Secretary of State for Digital,Culture,Media and Sport from 2019 to 2020. She was the first woman to chair the Treasury Select Committee. A member of the Conservative Party,she was Member of Parliament (MP) for Loughborough from 2010 to 2019.
Dame Jacqueline Doyle-Price is a British former Conservative Party politician and former civil servant who was Member of Parliament (MP) for Thurrock from 2010 to 2024. She was first elected as MP in the 2010 general election and was defeated in the 2024 general election.
Alexander Serge Lourie CF was a former Leader of the London Borough of Richmond upon Thames,where he was a local government councillor from 1982 to 2010. He was Chairman of the United Kingdom Housing Trust,Kingston Hospital NHS Trust and Sanctuary Housing Association. He had also been the General Secretary of Help the Aged and a board member of the London Pensions Fund Authority and the Notting Hill Housing Trust.
Helen Olivia Bicknell Whately is a British Conservative Party politician who has served as Member of Parliament (MP) for Faversham and Mid Kent since 2015 and Shadow Secretary of State for Work and Pensions since November 2024. She was Shadow Secretary of State for Transport from July to November 2024 and Minister of State for Social Care from October 2022 to July 2024,as too previously from 2020 to 2021. She also served as Exchequer Secretary to the Treasury from 2021 to 2022.
Simon James Hoare is a British Conservative Party politician who has been the Member of Parliament (MP) for North Dorset since 2015. He was formerly Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Local Government from November 2023 until July 2024.
